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Wanderweg #2
Wanderweg #2
Edited by Thomas Fisher and Kiyoshi Stelzner
In the Mountain’s Shadow…
From the editors: Wanderweg is a zine about hiking. A mystic meditation on walking in nature; part diary, part field notebook, part folk tale. Wanderweg is completely bilingual, everything is told in both English and German depending on which side you read from. Inside you’ll find accounts of our walks, stories of folk horror, our own illustrations and photographs, Romanticism and the odd foray into imagination and dreams.
Inspired by old walking guides, mystical maps, and a shared love of zines, the idea for Wanderweg slowly took shape. Our words delved deeper into the places we'd been, our experiences mixing with their histories and folk tales. At times, out there, it can feel difficult to tell the two apart. This is something we wanted to try and convey on the page. Our small contribution to honouring the Sublime, may it resonate with all your own experiences amongst the trees!
We favoured traditional techniques in the making of this zine, we wrote all the words, took all the photographs. Pen and ink sketches are by Thomas, illustrations by Kiyo and archive images from the Old Masters. Our hope is that what we have created feels like a welcoming place for all to celebrate our shared love of walking, nature, folklore, art and community.
In this second issue we spend some days in the Vorkarwendel in Bavaria where we find the mountain giants surveying the land. We climb high to see what they can see and we hold our gaze steady as they slowly turn inward and reveal their secrets. We dance with witches on the slopes of the Brocken and fly with the birds high over the peaks. Our journey then leads us back to the low lands where we burrow into the very heart of the hillside itself. What follows are accounts that are both joyful and fearful. But beyond anything else we find what we discover is a sense of awe. A glimpse perhaps, in those wild places, of the Sublime itself.
In the English half of this second issue, readers will find…
Reflections on Mountain Gloom & Mountain Glory: An introduction from the editors
Giant Turning Inward: Vorkarwendel Part I
Giant Gazing Outward: Vorkarwendel Part II
The White Stag: Harz Mountains
Bastions of Memory: Back on the Painter's Way
Song of the Alpine Chough
Hollow Earth: Pottenstein
…and in German…
Über die Berge: Vorwort
In der Halle der Trolle: Vorkarwendel Teil I
Der Ausguck der Trolle: Vorkarwendel Teil II
Der weiße Hirsch: Harz
Bastei der Erinnerung: Zurück auf dem Malerweg
Das Lied der Alpendohle
Hohle Erde: Pottenstein
Published by Wanderweg (Spring 2026). New and in perfect condition, with a trim size of 7.9 x 4.8 inches.
172-page perfectbound magazine (83 pages in English, 89 pages in German), with black-and-white illustration and photography throughout. Each copy comes with a bookmark.
Edited by Thomas Fisher and Kiyoshi Stelzner
In the Mountain’s Shadow…
From the editors: Wanderweg is a zine about hiking. A mystic meditation on walking in nature; part diary, part field notebook, part folk tale. Wanderweg is completely bilingual, everything is told in both English and German depending on which side you read from. Inside you’ll find accounts of our walks, stories of folk horror, our own illustrations and photographs, Romanticism and the odd foray into imagination and dreams.
Inspired by old walking guides, mystical maps, and a shared love of zines, the idea for Wanderweg slowly took shape. Our words delved deeper into the places we'd been, our experiences mixing with their histories and folk tales. At times, out there, it can feel difficult to tell the two apart. This is something we wanted to try and convey on the page. Our small contribution to honouring the Sublime, may it resonate with all your own experiences amongst the trees!
We favoured traditional techniques in the making of this zine, we wrote all the words, took all the photographs. Pen and ink sketches are by Thomas, illustrations by Kiyo and archive images from the Old Masters. Our hope is that what we have created feels like a welcoming place for all to celebrate our shared love of walking, nature, folklore, art and community.
In this second issue we spend some days in the Vorkarwendel in Bavaria where we find the mountain giants surveying the land. We climb high to see what they can see and we hold our gaze steady as they slowly turn inward and reveal their secrets. We dance with witches on the slopes of the Brocken and fly with the birds high over the peaks. Our journey then leads us back to the low lands where we burrow into the very heart of the hillside itself. What follows are accounts that are both joyful and fearful. But beyond anything else we find what we discover is a sense of awe. A glimpse perhaps, in those wild places, of the Sublime itself.
In the English half of this second issue, readers will find…
Reflections on Mountain Gloom & Mountain Glory: An introduction from the editors
Giant Turning Inward: Vorkarwendel Part I
Giant Gazing Outward: Vorkarwendel Part II
The White Stag: Harz Mountains
Bastions of Memory: Back on the Painter's Way
Song of the Alpine Chough
Hollow Earth: Pottenstein
…and in German…
Über die Berge: Vorwort
In der Halle der Trolle: Vorkarwendel Teil I
Der Ausguck der Trolle: Vorkarwendel Teil II
Der weiße Hirsch: Harz
Bastei der Erinnerung: Zurück auf dem Malerweg
Das Lied der Alpendohle
Hohle Erde: Pottenstein
Published by Wanderweg (Spring 2026). New and in perfect condition, with a trim size of 7.9 x 4.8 inches.
172-page perfectbound magazine (83 pages in English, 89 pages in German), with black-and-white illustration and photography throughout. Each copy comes with a bookmark.
